A/N - We've reached the end of the Ponds. Next up, is the Snowmen episode (which I am stoked to write). Big reveal in this chapter!

Amy joined them outside. "Okay, why did you lie?" she asked.

"Never let him see the damage," River told her.

Never let him see the damage.

Amy walked over to her and put her arm around her daughter's shoulder, while Elise wrapped her arm around River's. They made quiet the group. All three generations of one family. Daughter, mother, and grandmother.

River turned to look at Amy. "And never, ever let him see you age. He doesn't like endings."

The Doctor came running outside. "Got it. He's at a place called Winter Quay. The car, yes? Let's go."

The four of them got into the car. They pulled up to the apartment building.

"Why would they send him here? Why not zap him back in time, like they normally do?" River asked.

"We'll know that when we know what this place is," the Doctor said.

They got out and looked up at the building.

"Winter Quay," Amy pointed out.

They all ran inside and got inside the lift, except Elise.

"Elise, come on. We do not have time for this!" the Doctor yelled.

River put her hand out and Elise took it, stepping inside.

They rode up to the eighth floor and got out.

"Rory?" Amy asked.

"He's close," River told her.

"Rory!"

They came to a door that was open.

"Rory!" Amy ran to him and hugged him.

"Amy."

River stopped walking.

There was an angel at the end of the corridor.

"Doctor, look at this. Why is it smiling?"

The Doctor looked over and saw "R. Williams" on a nameplate next to the door. "Amy. Rory!" the Doctor yelled, stepping into the apartment. He pulled River and Elise with him. "Get out of here! Don't look at anything. Don't touch..."

"Who's that?" Amy asked, spotting someone lying in the bed.

It was an old man. He reached out towards them. "Amy. Amy, please."

Amy approached him and took his hand in hers.

"Amy, please. Please."

"Rory?" Amy turned to look at the Rory standing with the Doctor, Elise, and River. "He's you."

The last word the old Rory said was Amy's name.

"Will someone please tell me what is going on?" Rory asked.

The Doctor turned to Rory. "I'm sorry, Rory, but you just died."

"Doctor, just tell us what's going on," Amy said.

"This place is policed by Angels. Every time you try to escape, you get zapped back in time."

"So this place belongs to the Angels? They built it?"

"Displacing someone back in time creates time energy, and that is what the Angels feed on. But normally, it's a one off, a hit and run. If they could keep hold of their victims, feed off their time energy over and over again. This place is a farm. A battery farm. How many Angels in New York?"

"It's like they've taken over every statue in the city," River said.

"The Angels take Manhattan because they can, because they've never had a food source like this one. The city that never sleeps."

Heavy footsteps could be heard coming towards them outside.

"What was that?" Rory asked.

"I don't know. But I think they're coming for you."

"What does that mean? What is going to happen to me? What is physically going to happen?"

The Doctor sat down in a chair. "The Angels will come for you. They'll zap you back in time to this very spot, thirty, forty years ago. And you'll live out the rest of your life in this room, until you die in that bed."

"And will Amy be there?"

"No."

"How do you know?" Amy asked.

"Because he was so pleased to see you again."

"Okay. Well, they haven't taken me yet. What if I just run?" Rory asked, "What if I just get the hell out of here? Then that never happens."

"It's already happened. Rory, you've just witnessed your own future."

"Doctor, he's right," River said.

"No, he isn't."

"If Rory got out, it would create a paradox."

The heavy footsteps were getting closer.

"What is that?" Amy asked.

The Doctor and River ignored her question.

"This is the Angels' food source. The paradox poisons the well. It could kill them all. This whole place would literally un-happen," River told him.

"It would be almost impossible," the Doctor said.

River crossed her arms over her chest and smiled. "Loving the almost."

The Doctor stood up. "But to create a paradox like that takes almost unimaginable power. What have we got, eh? Tell me. Come on, what?"

Amy walked over to Rory and took her hand in his. "I won't let them take him. That's what we've got."

The footsteps were even closer now, almost right outside the window.

"Whatever that thing is, it's getting closer," Rory told them.

"Rory, even if you got out, you'd have to keep running for the rest of your life. They would be chasing you forever."

"Well, then. Better get started," Amy said. She opened the door and there stood an angel. "Husband, run!"

Amy and Rory ran out the door and past the angel. The Doctor smirked with pride at his companions.

The lights flickered and the angels were closer.

"River, I'm not sure this can work," the Doctor said.

"Husband, shut up."

They rushed for the door as the lights flickered again. An angel blocked the doorway. The lights flickered again and they were trapped in the room.

Elise whimpered.

River grabbed her hand. "It's okay, sweetie. Just keep calm."

The Doctor soniced the lightbulb to keep it on.

They were surrounded on all sides by angels.

"We can't keep doing this," the Doctor said.

"Any ideas?" River asked.

"Yeah, the usual. Run!"

They bolted from the room and found angels on the stairs.

"Okay! Fire escape."

They managed to find a fire escape and ran up to the roof, where they found Amy and Rory standing on the ledge.

"What the hell are you doing!" the Doctor yelled.

"Changing the future. It's called marriage," Amy said.

The two of them fell off the ledge.

"Amy!"

"Rory!"

Elise, River, and the Doctor ran over and looked over the side of the ledge.

Balls of energy started to flicker around the roof.

"Doctor! What's happening?" River asked.

The Doctor turned around and grabbed both River and Elise's hands. "The paradox. It's working! The paradox is working!"

They appeared in a graveyard.

"Where are we?" Rory asked as he and Amy sat up.

"Back where we started. You collapsed the timeline. The paradox worked. We all pinged back where we belong," the Doctor told them.

"What, in a graveyard?"

"This happened the last time. Why always here?" Amy asked.

"Does it matter? We got lucky. We could've blown New York off the planet. I can't ever take the TARDIS back there. The timelines are too scrambled." The Doctor sighed. "I could have lost you both." He hugged them. "Don't ever do that again."

"What did we do? We fixed it. We solved the problem," Rory said.

"I was talking to myself." He kissed both of them on the forehead.

River and the Doctor examined the damage on the TARDIS.

"It could do with a repaint," River told him.

"I've been busy," the Doctor said.

"Does the bulb on top need changing?"

"I just changed it."

"So. Rory and Amy, then."

"Yes. I know, I know."

"I'm just saying. They're going to get terribly bored hanging round here all day."

Elise smiled seeing them bicker. Everything was back to normal.

"Doctor," Rory called, walking up with Amy, "Look, next time, could we could just go to the pub?"

"I want go to the pub right now," the Doctor agreed, "Are there video games there? I love video games."

"Right. Family outing, then," River said.

He went inside to find some coordinates, while River went inside to get changed into something more suitable.

Elise gave Amy and Rory one last glance before going inside.

"It's a shame. I really loved old New York. I went there once a long time ago," the Doctor said.

Amy started to come inside when Rory called her name. "Doctor!" Amy yelled.

Elise, the Doctor, and River came running out of the TARDIS.

There was an angel standing next to a gravestone and Amy was staring at it.

"Where the hell did that come from?" River asked.

"It's a survivor. Very weak, but keep your eyes on it," the Doctor said.

"Where's Rory?" Amy asked.

The Doctor approached the gravestone and saw Rory's name.

"I'm sorry. Amelia, I'm so, so sorry."

"No. No, we can just go and get him in the TARDIS. One more paradox."

"It would rip New York apart."

"No, that's not true. I don't believe you."

"Mother, it's true," River told her.

Amy approached the angel.

Elise started to move, but the Doctor turned around.

"Do not move, Elise. Do you hear me? You don't take one more step."

Elise flinched at his hard tone, but did as he said.

He turned back to Amy. "Amy, what are you doing?"

"That gravestone, Rory's, there's room for one more name, isn't there?"

"What are you talking about? Back away from the Angel." He grabbed Amy's wrist, but she pulled away from him. "Come back to the TARDIS. We'll figure something out."

"The Angel, would it send me back to the same time? To him?"

"I don't know. Nobody knows."

"But it's my best shot, yeah?"

"No!"

"Doctor, shut up," River snapped, "Yes. Yes, it is."

"Amy..." the Doctor begged.

"Well, then. I just have to blink, right?"

"No!"

"It'll be fine. I know it will. I'll be with him, like I should be. Me and Rory together. Melody?"

"Stop it. Just, just stop it!"

River walked to Amy and grabbed her hand. She kissed the back of it.

"You look after him. You be a good girl, and you look after him and Elise," Amy told her.

"You are creating fixed time. I will never be able to see you again," the Doctor said.

"I'll be fine. I'll be with him."

"Amy, please, just come back into the TARDIS. Come along, Pond, please."

"Raggedy man, goodbye!" Amy spun around and disappeared. Amy's name appeared on the gravestone.

"No!" the Doctor cried.

River walked over to the Doctor and rubbed his back, trying to comfort him. When she turned back, she saw Elise still standing next to the TARDIS, but she wasn't crying.

Never let him see the damage.

She was standing there stoically.

River flew the TARDIS while the Doctor sat on the stairs.

Elise sat on the opposite staircase, for once not taking comfort in him.

"River, they were your parents. I'm sorry, I didn't even think," the Doctor told her.

"It doesn't matter."

"Of course it matters."

"What matters is this. Doctor, don't travel alone."

He wasn't truly alone with Elise, but River could see the change in her. She'd never go back to the girl she once was. Not after this.

"Travel with me, then." The Doctor knew Elise would need River to fall back on.

"Whenever and wherever you want."

The Doctor smiled.

"But not all the time. One psychopath per TARDIS, don't you think? Okay. This book I've got to write. Melody Malone. I presume I send it to Amy to get it published?"

"Yes. Yes."

"I'll tell her to write an afterword." She walked past him on the stairs. "For you. Maybe you'll listen to her." She disappeared down the corridor.

"The last page!" The Doctor ran to the console, throwing levers and hitting buttons.

The TARDIS landed and he ran out the door, leaving Elise in the control room alone with her thoughts.

When he returned, he was holding the last page of the book. "You told me this would happen..." he said.

"What?"

"You..."

Elise stood up and walked over to him. "Okay, you're starting to scare me now. What are you talking about?"

"I...I can't tell you."

Elise crossed her arms over her chest. "No. You can't just say something like that and then take it back. What do you mean I told you?"

"Spoilers."

"No. Tell me."

"I can't!"

"Okay, so some time in the future I tell you about losing Amy and Rory..."

The Doctor sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Not my future. Your future. And you didn't mention them by name. In fact, you wouldn't tell me anything."

"When?"

"Spoilers."

That word was starting to get on her nerves.

"Ellie, I can't tell you because I don't know when it happens for you." The Doctor walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder, which she shrugged off. "You've seen what can happen when you know the future. The timeline has to be upheld. I'm sorry. You'll understand when you're older."

Elise rolled her eyes and stormed out of the control room.

The next day, Elise came into the control room.

The orange and bright interior was gone, exchanged for a cold metal interior bathed in blue and purple light.

She had so many good memories in that control room. Did he change it? Or did the TARDIS change it?

"What do you think?" her father asked her.

"I don't like it." The Doctor rolled his eyes.

"Well, where are we?" Elise asked.

The Doctor gestured to the doors.

Elise walked over to them. She threw them open, expecting see the vast expanse of space but instead saw fog.

"Well, go on," he told her.

Elise stepped out and found it was solid. She walked over to the edge, seeing building she didn't recognize.

The Doctor joined her. "Elise, welcome to Victorian England."

Elise looked at him confused. "No trip?"

The Doctor's face hardened. "No more trips."

"Ever?"

"No."

"But..."

"No." The Doctor stormed back into the TARDIS, the doors slamming shut behind him.

Elise glanced over the side, before turning back and going back inside.